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The rivalry between the Salt Lake Turbulence and Long Beach Flightless Birds began almost the moment that Salt Lake joined the league in Season 16. The rivalry was a natural one: the Turbulence, an Air-element team, are analytical, mathematical, and elegant, while the Flightless Birds, an Earth-element team, are chaotic, unpredictable, and instinctual. Whereas the Turbulence live their motto, Inveniam viam aut faciam (I find a way, or make one), by overcoming adversity and finding ways to rise above any challenge, the Flightless Birds motto, Omnia adscendentia convergunt (Everything that rises must converge) serves as a direct threat to the Turbulence - a promise that gravity will always overcome and pull high-flyers back to earth. The matches themselves were ugly clashes between patterns from the Turbulence, based on complex, elegant equations of fluid dynamics, and patterns from the Flightless Birds, hare-brained brute-force schemes that would come together in the end more often than not.